KMFDM
Boots - Metropolis/Outside Music
By Chris Twomey
Originally Published: 2002-02-10
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood's hit "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" never sounded like this! This new version by the 18-year-old industrial-rock band brings out a menacing subtext in the tune for a post 9/11 America on the march. Group founder Sascha Konietzko has long been writing about the U.S. military-industrial "excessive force," even naming a side project after the term. As a European living in America he's had an objectivity about the mechanisms of propaganda and consumerism that hasn't been seen in lyric writing since the protest days of the '60s. KMFDM's iconic animated videos and sleeve art (as always done by the simply named Brute!) have been like political commentaries wrapped in a techno-rock beats for years on music tv. Now as a preview to the 12 KFMDM album, Attak (due April 19th), Konietzko parodies America's culture of state violence and state control in "Back In The U.S.S.A." which quotes the Sex Pistol's anti-state anthem "Anarchy In The UK" over a rock-reggae groove. Armed with guitars and drum machines KFMDM are back and taking no prisoners.
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